A national student-led effort shows how early-career researchers are engaging Congress on federal science funding amid ...

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Together, the N.I.H. and the N.S.F. had a nearly $60 billion annual budget for funding future breakthroughs in science and ...

When the documentary film “Seaspiracy” launched on Netflix in 2021, it quickly generated controversy within scientific communities and among the public at large. Some praised the film documenting ...

With a trunk that produces 110-decibel blasts that can be heard for miles, elephants are well-equipped for long-distance communication. But it turns out they may be letting their feet do some of the ...

The controversial genetic science that’s busting the myths about Hitler - Geneticist Professor Turi King paints a more vivid ...

Educators have been giving much-needed attention recently to innovations in the standard M.B.A. and the undergraduate business curriculum. Most notable has been the integration of fundamental courses ...

This is a free edition of Deep Shtetl, a newsletter about the unexplored intersections of politics, culture, and religion. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. These days, it’s hard to figure out who ...

And people should think carefully about what they eat to meet those needs. “On social media, it’s like everyone’s worried about protein, putting protein powder into everything,” she says. Health ...

Call it a galaxy in a bottle. Last month, astronomers in Europe released a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It is the most detailed survey ever produced of our home galaxy. It contains the ...

About 375 million years ago, armored fishes ruled a watery world. Known as placoderms, these jawed vertebrates came in all shapes and sizes, from small bottom-dwellers to giant filter-feeders. Some, ...